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It's hard to imagine rain when you look outside right now and see your thermometer registering zero or barely above, but that's exactly what's possible in both Missouri and Illinois next week based on a new forecast.

How much do you trust weather forecasters? Do you trust new technology more or old-school forecasting like Farmer's Almanac? How you answered will decide how you feel about the brand new Farmer's Almanac prediction about spring in Missouri in 2024.

Discover the mysterious phenomenon of frost quakes: loud booms caused by freezing ground water.

My family heard them several times Saturday night at our house in Missouri and maybe you did, too. Did you hear mysterious booms and wonder if we were either having an earthquake or about to? It was actually something completely different.

One of the more volatile weather systems in recent memory is about to clobber parts of Illinois and some could see more than a foot of snow and a bomb cyclone is even possible.

Now that 2023 is completely in the rear view mirror now, the number of lightning strikes in Missouri can finally be tallied. Please forgive the lightning pun, but the total really is shocking.

It is beginning. The weather pattern that will likely see multiple winter storms dump snow on Missouri is upon us. The National Weather Service has just shared a new probability map and it looks like much of Missouri will have at least 5 inches of snow to deal with by the end of the day on Tuesday.

Conflicting forecasts for a potential blizzard in Iowa raise concerns and emphasize the importance of reliable weather sources.

I tend to be conservative when it comes to actually sharing news of an incoming snowstorm. Since I was born and raised in Missouri, I insist that someone "show me" proof. In this case, there are multiple models showing the possibility of a major snow even in Missouri the second week of January.

When your spouse is a meteorologist, you think you've heard it all when it comes to weather-related history. That's what I thought, but today I learned there was one Missouri weather fact I was unaware of. Did you know the world record for rainfall is held by a tiny Missouri place that was slammed with a foot in just an hour?